BBC has recently recorded various current artists doing their versions of all the tracks on Beatles Please Please Me at Abbey Road, 50 years to the day it was done originally. They had to do it in the same time that the Beatles took and complete in the one day like the original.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21416977
Am I the only one to think it was dire? I have heard a tribute band in the Cavern do a better job than some of these guys. The only ones who came anywhere near good were the Stereophonics, Paul Carrack and maybe Joss Stone and Beverly Knight. Squeeze didn't put in some chord changes on Please Please Me and dropped all the fill-ins so it was total crap and very dull.
Made me realise yet again, why the Beatles were so far ahead.
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DaveP
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21416977
Am I the only one to think it was dire? I have heard a tribute band in the Cavern do a better job than some of these guys. The only ones who came anywhere near good were the Stereophonics, Paul Carrack and maybe Joss Stone and Beverly Knight. Squeeze didn't put in some chord changes on Please Please Me and dropped all the fill-ins so it was total crap and very dull.
Made me realise yet again, why the Beatles were so far ahead.
best
DaveP